The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-13
King Alcohol.


that stage at which it is most palatable,
that iteontains small quantity Of alcohol
As far back as we have history Alcohol
IN some form has been used as beverage,
and man has been more or less its slave.
Almost every nation now has ITS national
drink
In a small island discovered few years
ago in the Pacific ocean, the savage in
habitants had peculiar drink which they
prepared by having the healthy young
Boys chew she roots of anzfiys herb, and
amid peculiar ceremonies and rites, they
were marched around an open mouth YES
sci aud spit the juice mixed with saliva
into the pct, where after fermentation, it
produced an alcoholic beverage which
they drank with great relish.
EThus it has been, with all of Adams
race, down through successive ages unto
the present day, our ancestors have been
addicted to some kind of alcoholic drink.
And there now lives, prob ably, not man
woman or child in all this broad universe
who does not have this ever increasing
and progressive hereditary faint in his or
her physical and moral economy.
The evil manifestations Of the over in
diligence in alcoholic drinks are manifold.
viii not speak of the state of acute in-
tazication, as many of you have seen a
drunken man and know something of his
disgusting condition. viii pass on to the
effects Of alcohol on the habitual drunk
arc. Alcohol passing into the stomach in
crcases the How of gastric juices, and this
being often repeated produces various I'M
healthy conditions Of the stomach. Alco
Dol being very diffusible passes rapidly
into circulation and with the blood di-
reetly through the liver where it sets up
train Of evils. But the most important
ef ali l. the action of alcohol on the brain
and nervous system. The human brain
Immersed continually in jar Of alcohol
becomes hard, dense and firm. Alcohol
has a special affinity for nervous matter.
being found IN the brain of the old drunk
ard in larger quantity than elsewhere in
The system.
Thus By direct contact, various patho-
logical changes are produced in the brain |
Il l. rendered hard and dense, and the
proper cell structure is destroyed. The
Ga haiifual drunkand has not actually 1
a. rnueh brain matter az be formerly bad,
heaoe. the impaired mental and physical
sisur add other nervous troubles in
many Instances bis moral nature Is all
dad. iis disposition i chang od and he
becomes liar and q criminal.
The woes and evils Of intsmperanee are
oct sIsut alone upon the drunkard, but
are eat down a. an inheritance to his
elildren and to his children's children.
aud perhaps even down through the sue
as--iTs ages 70 the coming offhe milienni-
am. The child inherits the peculiar men
fsi. physical and moral properties OF its
parents. This Is fact almost everybody
aLniifs. Then II the alcoholic can bring
Ipeu himself these various mental physi-
cal and moral diseases, it must follow,
thzi liz offspring viii be itnperfeeily or
ainoflnaily developed in various ways,
and siil ia turn transmit disease TO pos
iefify
Insi,fisfy destroys homes and families.
Il destroys the capacity to perform caily
iai,or. 70 beoome taxpayer and to per-
form military dufy IN time Of war.
Tho inebrisie Is not oEly a curse to hilh-
Ell. ~ bic family snd 20 future gen. n
folis. bat be l. . burden TO the community
ia rhiel he lives and TO the state Of whieh
De- l. . citizen.
H. l. not only dIone in the bee hive
producing nothing himself, aud requiring
si,s substanoe Of Others to support him,
buf BE- ilhiefs upon the community upon
'iss staie, and npon the human race at
iaI-s untold injuries. Hence the right Of
lie H.ofzlist, fhe statesman and the pafri-
"a, rlic bamsuiiaFian and saniiarian 20
nr1isst against that sO-eailed personal
iIi.-ffy sLich all0Es the inebriate TO in
dulse 10 biz ruling passion
Drrnkenless is not entirely sin nor is
Il cutirely . crime. Il Is a weakness, q
tlind unosnirolable Impulse for intOxiea-
i.s8 brought shout by an abnormal and
uiiaealfily norous system
The drunkaEd says he '-ean not abstain
from drink. il looks like be "Eiii not, but
fiic trufh j. De s'eau not sill"
sandy ti,efe is nothing wrong in the
do rlizi sriision shouid have complete
dalli1icn 9ser Gin. bot 50 far il has failed
- notably decrease drunkenness. And
prnishnelf should be the proper resort
fef tie Suppression Of crime, but il seems
o. b. unayaiiing N the case Of the drunk
ald- Hence il appears that NE require
ssiseihi1s eiss 70 come 70 the help Of re-
lslau and PUNISHMENT 70 pat down this
great esl
~ Il l. that ne should not waste all
~ car strength against drunkeAness as
sueli, isf should make an attack upon the
iaeans By which 4. is produced, we should
Do sanefiiag 80 regulate and restrict the
49, II aloobol, the cause Of 20 much evil.
What tAink you u the young priest,
rho raz Devoted aud earnest in his work.
aud uho bad q special abhoreuce Of drum
ksuae-s, aud who while in very ardnous
task Wa prev JAILED upon By his friends to
fariake q little sfiiaulns in form Of
brandy. He lived and died drunkard.
Iiis father and mother were both drunk
ards bsfIe hiHt
WAai thilk goa Of Tie Statesman who
Tad arrived II maturity aud had hSd new
r. foaaiiea drep in HE life, whose father
ilrnfhers AID relatives were drGnkards,
aas uio had uiade row to never touch
Z. Aaf while engaged as a candidate in a
hsaied canvass for congress ssme one
I.iaasd > little uiiiskey IN a stand Which |
b. d-ank bcforo be knew il He never
ufaruarIis drew sober BREATH
1 la.s Ia ans mind nov the history Of |